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A57148	The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Councel, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1268; ESTC R15341	21,144	52

whereby Christ dwells in believers illightning their mindes bending their wills subduing their lusts erecting a tribunal and judgement seat in their hearts giving accesse unto and communion with the Father and the Son Gal. 2. 20. Ephes. 3. 17. for the work of the Spirit is to bring God and Christ unto the soul as his Temple wherein be delighteth to dwell Isa. 57. 15. 3. In works of Peace and Comfort in which respect he is called the Comforter John 14. 16. 16. 7. and the Reports which he makes of God and Christs to the soul are called the Comforts of the holy Ghost Act. 9. 31. Now the Spirit doth bring the consolations of God to the soul of a beleever as a Witness A Seale An Earnest A Seed 1. As a Witnesse He testifieth our Adoption and the truth of the promises causing the heart to acknowledge Gods fidelity in them Rom. 8. 16. 1 Joh. 5. 6 8. 2. As a Seale he ratifies our title and Gods grant to those promises so attested Eph. 4. 30. God by his Spirit sealeth and marketh his own children for himself Isa. 43. 21. Ezek. 9. 4. and so secureth their hearts that he is theirs 1. Joh. 4. 13. 3. As an Earnest and pledge of those glorious things the truth whereof he witnesseth and the property whereunto he sealeth to believers giving livery and seizen and in part possession per primitias gloriae unto them Rom. 8. 23. Eph. 1. 14. 4. As a Seed of God or vital root of grace and comfort when through corruption grace may be abated or comfort overclouded Psal. 97. 11. 1. John 2. 9. In these things standeth the presence of God in his Church The greatnesse of this mercy to have the Lord thus graciously present with a people is more then the tongue of a man or Angel is able to expresse These are some few of those unspeakable benefits which usually come along with it 1. Manifestation of himself and of the secrets of his love and counsel to the Church John 14 21. he shews unto a soul the salvation of God Psal. 50. 23. comes and sups with it Rev. 3. 20. brings it into the banquetting house Cant. 2. 4. unto a feast of fatted things The Ordinances make the Church an Eden a Paradise no tree of life nor meanes of salvation out of that garden 2. Cohabitation and gracious converse with the soules of men having his abode in them John 14. 23. It is a rich mercy as Galeacius said to have but one hours communion with God but when he dwells in his Church as in setled place 1 Reg. 8. 13. Psal. 68. 16. and makes a soul or people his Temple this is truly the glory of such a soul or people 1 Sam. 4. 21. 3. Protection and defence If God be with us who can be against us If he be in the midst of us we shall not be moved Psal. 46. 5. the Lord will cover his people all the day long the beloved of the Lord shall dwell by him in safety Deut. 33. 12. 4. Intimate delight and dearnesse where the Lord dwells he delights He taketh pleasure in those that feare him his desire is towards them Psal. 147. 11. Prov. 11. 20. Cant. 7. 10. 5. Supplies of grace strength ability and assistance unto duties Christ comes not to nakes walls he beautifies the place of his abode and makes it glorious Psalme 149. 4. Isa. 11. 10. and makes us strong in the power of his might Eph. 6. 10. 6. Victory he comes to the soul as Joshua to Canaan to dispossess the ancient Inhabitants Zac. 14. 21. Ezek. 28. 24. We have briefly considering the Glory and honour of a people who have God thus with them as their God owning them comforting blessing defending encamping about them for it is nearnesse unto God and the enjoyment of righteous Lawes and holy Ordinances which makes a Nation great and honourable Deut. 4. 7 8. Isa. 43 4 5. Let us now proceed to consider what it is for God to depart from a people and how great a woe it bringeth along with it 1. We must remember that the Catholick and universal Church is indeficient though not in its own Nature for by the same reason that any particular Church may fail all may yet in regard of the promises which are made unto it That the Gates of Hell shall not prevaile against it Matth. 16. 18. That Christ will be with it to the end of the world Mat. 28. 20. Of the Kingdome of Christ there shall be no End Luke 1. 33. Christ will alwayes have a people on the earth to serve him His Throne shall be as the Sunne and as a faithful witnesse in heaven Psalme 89. 36 37. These are promises made to the universal Church and to all who should throughout the world believe in Christ as Chrysostome Austine Prosper and others have expounded them 2. We say that particular Churches are defectible They may fall from God and God may depart from them He hath not to any particular Church or Nation made an absolute promise of abiding with them for ever No Church ever did challenge this Priviledg but the Romane Church which yet the Apostle warneth to take heed least God spare not them as he spared not the natural branches but brake them off Rom. 11. 20 21. This Truth we finde verified in the examples of the ten Tribes who were at last Lo-ammi quite unchurched and cast off by God Hos. 1. 9. and of the Jewish Church the natural branches from whom the Kingdome of God hath been taken and wrath come upon them to the uttermost Matth. 21. 43. 1 Thes. 2. 16. according as God threatned if they forsook him he would forsake them 2 Chron. 15. 2. And in those famous Churches of Asia from whom the Candlestick is removed and they swallowed up in the deluge of Mahumetanisme 3. For opening this sore judgement of Gods departing from a people we may observe That the Scripture setteth forth Desertion unto us three manner of wayes In a way of propitiation In a way of probation And in a way of punishment 1. In a way of propitiation So God the Father forsook Christ in his Agony and Passion when his soule was made an offering for sinne not because he ceased to love him or to delight in him there was no solution of union nor substraction of love or favour but a with-drawing and hiding of Vision and comfort whereby Christ was to make an attonement for us by bearing for us the weight and sense of Divine wrath Mat. 27. 46. Isa. 53. 4 5. 2. In a way of probation when the Lord in some particular case departs from a man to try him and discover his own weaknesse unto him for if God never so little turne away his face and supportance from us and suspend the operations of his Spirit upon us we quickly finde by sad experience that of our selves we have no sufficiency to think or do any thing

that of Gibeah Judg. 19. v. 9. 4. Carnal confidence and security v. 1 13. 5. Wickednesse of Prophets who should teach others v. 7 8. of Princes who should punish others v. 15. and of the People ver. 17. and all these sinnes aggravated by Gods ancient Love unto them v. 10. The punishments denounced v. 9. and now presently impending v. 7. 1. Scarcity of corne and wine which they promised themselves by their Idolatry v. 1 2. 2. Expulsion from the Lords Land into the Land of Enemies and Idols which they loved more then the Lord v. 3. 3. Eating polluted and interdicted meats as they had polluted the Land v. 3. 4. Ceasing of Sacrifices and impurity of them displeasing to God as the bread of mourners which was not to come into Gods house v. 4. 5. No celebrity or solemne Festivals v. 5. 6. Horrid vastation flight death burial in Egypt c. v. 6. as chap. 10. 8. Isa. 34. 11 15. 7. Slaying of children from the conception to the birth from the birth to youth Educated for murtherers v. 11 12 13 14 16. 8. Gods departure from them hating them loving them no more driving them from his house and presence casting them away verse 12 15 17. With all which there is a double prolepsis or prevention of an objection 1. They were at this time joyous and in great prosperity under Jeroboam who flourished more then any of the Kings of Israel This vaine security he removeth by assuring them that the dayes of visitation and recompence were come ver. 1 7. 2. They were strong like Tyrus and their place was secured by the Impregnablenesse of it But this should not prevent the judgement the murtherer should finde out their children the beloved fruit of their womb v. 1. 3 16. The words of the Text containe the sorest of all these judgements God may love and adopt a people own them for his vouchsafe his presence to them be a Sanctuary for them in a Wildernesse in Babylon when he feeds them with bread of affliction and water of affliction Deut. 8. 15 16. Exod. 33. 14. Ezek. 11. 16. Isa. 30. 20 21. But this is the uttermost misery which a people can be exposed unto to have the Lord hate them love them no more drive and cast them out and depart from them a comprehensive judgement a doleful Epiphonema though they have famine and banishment and desolation no sacrifices no festivals no children yet the Woe never comes till God cast them away and depart from them Yea woe also to them when I depart from them Or when I remove my Glory or Divine Majesty from them by the which I have dwelt amongst them or been neere unto them So the Chaldee reads it The seventy and Theosion render it my flesh is from them which the Greek Expositors understand as a mitigation of the woe though their own children should be cut off yet he would be borne in the flesh of them and Petrus Galatinus chargeth the Jews with a false punctation of this word Besuri for Besari out of an hatred of the great mystery of the Incarnation But learned Interpreters do generally reject this Version and render it vae etiam ipsis in recedendo me ab eis or cum recessero ab eis which the sense of the context evidently requires by comparing it with v. 15 17. for though the middle letter be Shin for Samech yet that mutation is very frequent for Letters of the same sound and Organ to be put one for another as learned men have observed The words then are a prediction and denunciation of Gods departure from his people for their sins Wherein are visible these two parts 1. The judgement threatned Gods departure from them 2. The misery consequent thereupon Ye woe also unto them when I depart from them It is a miserable thing for mens children to flee away and depart from them or after they are brought up to be preserved for the murtherer But if God continue his presence all other comforts are comprized in that Job could blesse God when all was gone because the Lord had not forsaken him Job 1. 21. and the Apostle All men forsook me but the Lord stood with me and strengthned me 2 Tim. 4. 16 17. But when corne and wine sacrifices and oblations countrey and dwelling places Tabernacles and delights Children and the beloved fruit of the womb the Glory of that people are all gone then for God to go after them and depart too and to withdraw his Majesty and presence from them to hate them to love them no more to cast them out of his sight this is a cumulated Woe etiam vae a Woe that doth consummate all the other woes that leaveth no room for another or a greater Ye Also Woe unto them when I depart from them Here then that we may rightly understand both what it is for God to depart from a people and how great a woe and judgement it is It will be necessary to enquire what it is for God to be present with a people and how great a mercy that is for contraries do notably open and illustrate one another There is a twofold presence of God the one General by the immensity of his nature as he filleth all places Psal. 139. 7 12. The other special gracious comfortable as he is in his Church This presence of his hath been various according to the different ages and states of the Church 1. Typical in shadows and representations The Ark an Embleme of Gods presence who is said to dwell between the Cherubims Psalme 80. 1. there he promised to meet with them Exod. 29. 43 45. It is called his dwelling place Psalme 76. 2. his place his presence 1 Chron. 16. 27. 2. Energetical in powerful and mighty operations the bush burning and not consuming the opening of the red sea the thunders and lightnings on Sinai the mighty works between Egypt and Canaan were all evidences of Gods presence with Israel Psalme 68. 7 8. 3. Bodily manifested in the flesh by the incarnation of the Sonne who was the image of the invisible God Col. 1. 15. 1 Tim. 3. 16. 4. Spiritual by sending forth the Holy Spirit after the Ascension of Christ as another Comforter upon the Church John 14. 18 19. And thus he is present with his Church by spiritual Ordinances and by spiritual operations 1. By spiritual Ordinances in which God is said to be 1 Cor. 14. 25. and Christ to preach Eph. 2. 17. and to be evidently set forth Gal. 3. 1. to be with his Messengers to the end of the world Mat. 28. 20. 2. By spiritual operations which are of three sorts viz. works of Providence Grace Comfort 1. In works of providence by his power authority and wisedome ordering and reducing all the contingencies commotions and events of the world to the good of his Church and subversion of the Kingdome of darknesse Isa. 59. 19. Zach. 4. 6. 2. In works of Grace